PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Have around 10 years of professional experience in IT with an extensive background in Quality Assurance and Testing of Software systems for various commercial/enterprise applications
• Having strong Microsoft background with excellent hold on software development life cycle and processes
• Exposure to Agile, Waterfall and V - Model of Software Development methodology
• Experience with different phases and stages of software testing (Functional, System, Integration, Regression, UAT, Performance/Load and Data Verification and Validation)
• Proficiency testing Siebel Analytics, SSRS, Sharepoint and Database (SQL Server and Oracle) with understanding of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing/ETL, Big Data (Hadoop) concepts
• Expertise in Web Testing, Web-Application testing and Client- Server based N-tier Applications
• Domain expertise: Enterprise Content & Media Management, Sales, Finance, Healthcare
• Expertise in Product testing across platforms like Solaris, Windows, Mac OS
• Manage end-to-end Quality Management tasks for assigned projects that support both new development projects and product maintenance releases
• Excellent analytical skills for understanding the business requirements, business rules/processes and detailed design of the application
• Experience in Technical writing Skills with hands on experience in creating Businesses Requirements, Functional Specifications, Mapping Documents (Traceability Matrix etc), Test Plan, Test Scripts and Status Reports
• Expertise in working with globally diverse and distributed teams
• Facilitate and guide the QA team to follow best practices and test horizontal guidelines in all deliverables including self-reviews, peer reviews, check lists, query log, review logs to meet high quality standards
• Experience in leading and managing large teams and contributing as an individual team member as well
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter, team player.
• Proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner

RELEVANT SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Server & Client, UNIX/Linux, Solaris, Mac OS

Tools: SharePoint Designer 2010 & 2013

Bug tracking & versioning tools: Product Studio, Source Depot, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server(VSTF), Jira, Silk Central, Perforce

Testing Tools: QTP, Quality Centre, Test Director and Asset Tester

Programming Languages: C, C++ and Java

DBMS Packages: Microsoft SQL, Oracle

Browsers: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome

Other Technologies: SharePoint, Hadoop (Big Data), Siebel Analytics, SSIS, SSRS, Apache Tomcat, JBoss

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

QA Lead

Environment: Platform: Solaris, Windows, Mac OS

Web/App Servers: JBoss, Tomcat

Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

Tools: Perforce, SVN, JIRA, Silk Central

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall Quality of the deliverables.
• Prepare Test Plan and Strategy
• Analyze the Project schedule along with the team and provide the appropriate test estimates for finalizing the Test schedule
• Prepare test cases based on Functional Specifications, work with Product Manager and developers to get test cases review/approval.
• Test case maintenance and test result analysis using Silk Central
• Finding defects and reporting same in JIRA (Defect tracking tool)
• Preparing daily status reports pertaining to the test activity and updating in Scrum meetings.
• Responsible for setting up Test environment (VHDs/VMs) and Test data by working with Operations team to load production data in Test Database.
• Migration testing of assets in batches, backend validations and HTML5 User Interface testing.
• Perform Root cause analysis of defects and Problem solving.

Confidential, WA

Test Lead

Environment: Front End: MS Office 14 applications and Server Applications like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) and MS Office Online Help

OS: Windows XP and Vista, Win 7, Windows server 2003/2008

Responsibilities:

• Effective communication with Microsoft stakeholders and also with other Localization Service Providers around the globe
• Work with the Client (MS Ireland / Redmond) to get the knowhow on the product and processes.
• Analyze the Project schedule along with the team and provide the appropriate test estimates for finalizing the Test schedule
• Prepare Test Plan and Strategy
• Close co-ordination between the Client and the team to ensure smooth delivery
• Coordinate end-to-end testing efforts with internal and external LOBS, scheduling meetings and conference calls as needed
• Responsible for overall Quality of the deliverables
• Leading a Team of 25 members including 3 Modules leads.
• , guiding and supervising the team members.
• Setting up Test environment (VHDs/Virtual Machines), Functional Testing, Issues tracking and Problem solving.

Confidential, WA

Test Lead/Business Analyst

Environment: Front End: Web Application .Net, C#

Database: SQL Server 2005

OS: Windows XP and Vista

Performance Testing Tool: VSTS

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement and Preparing the Functional Specification
• Preparing the Test Plan, Traceability Matrix after the FS sign-off from client.
• Preparing test cases and allocating the same among the testers.
• Preparing Daily/Weekly Status Reports pertaining to Test activity.
• Project monitoring and client liaising.
• Coordinating with the Program Manager regarding Schedules and Releases dates.
• Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting using Product Studio.
• Regression testing for new builds/drops
• Performance/Load Testing using VSTS Load test wizard.

Confidential, WA

QA Lead

Environment: Front End: SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

Database: SQL Server 2000/2005

OS: Windows XP and Vista

Testing Tools: nUnit

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement and Preparing the Functional Specification
• As QA lead, I participated in Planning & Estimation Meetings with the Business and provided Test Estimates for each Sprint
• Prepare Test Plan for the test activities undertaken for each Sprint
• Writing Automation Scripts for Data Validation Testing using nUnit
• Capturing and analyzing XML queries for defect tracking
• Writing Stored Procedures for Data Validation testing
• Performing Back end (SQL Server 2005) and UI (SSRS) Testing
• Regression testing for new builds/drops
• Performance/Load Testing during UAT

Confidential, WA

QA Analyst

Environment: Front End: Reporting Services/Siebel Analytics

Middle tier: .Net assembly objects

Database: SQL Server 2000/2005

OS: Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows-XP,IIS 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement and Preparing the Functional Specification
• Participated in the meetings along with Microsoft Test Leads to provide Test estimates for my module.
• Created Automation tool for Cross Report Validation (SQL vs MDX)
• Writing Test Specs for UI and Data validation testing
• Capturing and analyzing XML queries for defect tracking
• Performing Back end (SQL Server 2000) and UI (Siebel Analytics) Testing
• Finding Bugs and reporting the same in Product Studio
• Regression testing for subsequent builds/drops

Confidential, CA

Sr. QA Tester

Environment: Solution Environment: Facets 5.01 Application

Software: Facets, Oracle

Tools: Jira, Quality Centre

Responsibilities:

• Co-coordinating with different business teams to understand the scope and requirement of the project.
• Defining the test scope, test estimation, test planning, test status reporting along with Test Lead and Test Manager.
• Preparing impact analysis of the module on the other modules and defining the mitigation plan by working with the various teams.
• Co-ordinate the testing activity of my module; test case reviews, test case assignment to teams members
• Tracking and reporting of the status daily/weekly to Test Lead.
• Test data preparation and execution of test cases.
• Involved in process related activities and implementing best practices in the account

Confidential, WI

Sr. QA Tester

Environment: Front End: Java, Rational Software Architect

Database: Rapid SQL

ETL Tool: Informatica 8.0

Test Management Tool: Quality Centre

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and study the business requirements by closely working with the customer and understanding the domain details.
• Interact with business analyst to understand the business flow, functional aspects.
• Work with the QA lead in preparing the Test Plan and Strategy.
• Worked closely with Business analyst and developers to get the test cases review/approvals
• Execute the test cases and participate in review meetings for status tracking and providing status reports.
• Generate bug reports and tracking defects using QC.
• Functional Testing, Issues tracking and Problem solving. and guiding new team members.

Confidential

QA Tester

Environment: Front End: Siebel Analytics

Middle tier: .Net assembly objects

Database: SQL Server 2000

OS: Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows-XP,IIS 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Functional Spec and writing test specs for UI testing
• Writing test specs and test scripts for UI-Backend validation
• Performing Back end (SQL Server 2000) and UI (Siebel Analytics) Testing
• Uploading Test Specs onto the Source Depot, monitoring and executing the same
• Uploading Test cases into Product Studio and executing the same
• Regression testing for new builds/drops
• Finding Bugs and reporting the same in Product Studio
• Interacting with client and attending T-cons as and when necessary